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...st; their skillset just is very different today than what it was a few years back. High-end LED/LCD and plasma TV's are still expensive enough to merit servicing, which most of the time involves module changing, service-remote-driven diagnostic menus, and similar. I still remember needing diddlesticks to do a full convergence job; the equivalent job today involves service menus and diagnostic single-board-computers that talk to the service port.